"...his tremendous
tenor sax playing...endlessly inventive
and with a flood of original
ideas...his tone and execution are always
superb"
-Eddie
Cook, Jazz Journal

"a practitioner of such dense
talent he sounds as if he invented tenor saxophone performance
instead of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Allen is
the Frank Sinatra of the tenor saxophone: a master interpreter
of standards"- C. Michael Bailey